RGP Cycle Two Grantees and Projects

Dina El-Khawaga: Neo-Authoritarian Coalitions and Social Mobilizations in Fluid Contexts: Egypt and Tunisia

After the euphoric moment that many Arab countries have witnessed under the label of Arab spring, many grievances continue to mobilize thousands of actors around social and civil demands. Authoritarian consolidation or at least reproduction seems gaining grounds too. The research group aims at producing a comparative three fold study on neo-authoritarianism and social mobilization in Egypt and Tunisia to widen the knowledge of the growing agency within the region and the institutional and governing coalitions in a context of fluidity.

Dina El-Khawaga is a social scientist currently working as a program director at the Arab Reform Initiative. She is a public policy professor at Cairo University. Her field of expertise covers knowledge production dynamics and higher education policies in MENA region. She has previously worked at the Ford Foundation as the regional higher education program officer and at the Open Society Foundations as the Arab Regional Office director. She is currently working on social mobilization and community organizing initiatives in Egypt. Her publications included scholarly articles on Coptic community, human rights, media industry and some 50 press articles about political current issues.